Death Without Cause: A Health Care Mystery

by Pamela Triolo

"Triolo has masterfully woven a gripping mystery deep within the healthcare system ... A true page turner," Gwen Sherwood, Award-winning author and editor. Hospitals can be dangerous places, especially when a sociopath on a quest for revenge begins to tamper with the system and play the health care team as pawns in his Game. This fast-paced novel written by a nurse is rooted in frightening reality and set in the largest medical center in the world.

Genres: Mystery

310 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2013

About the author

Triolo is an award-winning nurse author who has worked all over the US and internationally. She served as staff nurse, faculty member, television health reporter, and Chief Nursing Executive. Triolo is an accomplished public speaker and earned a PhD from the University of Iowa. She has also been a patient. Touched by breast cancer, she learned that though illness can create feelings of loss, it can also be a positive, life shaping event.

Reviews

[April Deming · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book shows us patient care through the eyes of the nurses who are the frontline of defense for keeping patience safe. I was impressed with the ease with which Triolo gave the reader complex medical information - so that the layman (non-health care professional) could understand it. Her characters were vibrant and gave the reader insight to the strong "team" aspects of nursing. The villain targets the weak and marginal in life. And Triolo gives us the very real sense - that no one would be able to catch him - except this group of dedicated nurses. I can't imagine how you begin to give medical information to non-medical personnel but Ms Triolo does it very well. I want Santos and Emma near by when I need a nurse.

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed the story but there were a lot of medical terms and abbreviations!

[Andrea Renfrow · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The nurse was the first and last line of defense for patients,” a character in Death Without Cause observes. What happens when that defense fails against a calculated and knowledgeable killer?

Triolo is a registered nurse as well as a skilled writer. Just read the prologue of Death Without Cause and you can’t help but understand why this woman would want to study medicine and write mysteries to boot! She makes the heart sound solid and sexy and desperately fragile at the same time, an organ too tempting for a psychopath to pass up tampering with.

It’s also clear that Triolo knows what she’s talking about. She’s not just a writer throwing around jargon she’s heard… I always think of films where the character peeks in the stalled car on the side of the road and says something utterly ridiculous and then walla, the car is fixed… No, Triolo is a nurse, sounds like a nurse, and has captured the ambiance of the hospital hands down. I was riveted.

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[Eleanor Sullivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pamela Triolo, debut mystery author, has penned a hit with her first book! As a nurse myself (and author of nurse-themed mysteries), I'm delighted to see a book that depicts nursing practice as it really is! Too many books, movies, and TV shows get nursing all too wrong. (Nurse Jackie is the exception.) The story is creepy enough to satisfy any thriller reader and just right for me. A stalker treads the hospital floors and I loved watching as Santos (nurse protagonist) and the killer traded scenes. Seeing the killer escalate into madness was especially interesting since I'm a former psych nurse. Besides, I just finished The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder about a true-life nurse killer now, thankfully, behind bars. I'm really glad I don't have to go to a hospital right anytime soon!
Eleanor Sullivan, Author of Cover Her Body (Singular Village Mysteries).

[Carnegie-Stout Public Library · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Robin Cook and Tess Gerritsen are authors of medical thrillers I’ve read in the past. Pamela Triolo compares favorably; a bit less graphic and a touch more cozy. All three authors use their medical backgrounds to give an insiders’ view of health care settings, professional ethics and politics." Michelle reviews the medical mystery Death Without Cause by Dubuque native Pamela Triolo http://carnegiestout.blogspot.com/201...

[Anne E. Easterday · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, this is not my usual genre, and I didn't find it to be particularly well written. It was fun to read for me as my dad is a minor character in the book! I think I should get him some hair ties and a bass guitar!

[Sue Evans · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good debut book. I enjoyed the suspense but there were a few details that didn't quite mesh for me. For example, if someone is found unconscious behind a door that had equipment in front of it, I would think it would immediately be considered an attack, not an accident.

[Beth A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well done. Great mystery, totally possible.